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password not working, I have made NO changes, the password held by Thunderbird is correct

colindchandler

I have made no changes to the PC or mail midway through the day it suddenly said input password, the password is correct, but I get incorrect password message. The password works using browser mode.

I have made no changes to the PC or mail midway through the day it suddenly said input password, the password is correct, but I get incorrect password message. The password works using browser mode.
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Isisombululo esiKhethiweyo

It was a corrupt password json file, mail.com is the provider

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If it worked before, and no changes have been made, the problem is probably external to thunderbird, such as an outage with the email provider. I have seen this twice today with other users.

Who is the mail provider?

You recently updated to version 148?

If so, pllease tell us, does something in https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-yahoo help?

Isisombululo esiKhethiweyo

It was a corrupt password json file, mail.com is the provider